Question

A box has a red ticket, a blue ticket, and a green ticket. You will draw one at random. What is the chance you will draw the red ticket?

What is the exact answer using a fraction.

Answer 1

A box contain 1 red ticket ,1 blue ticket and 1 green ticket

Here we consider the probability of drawing any one of the tickets among red, blue or green is equally likely

Now we know the box contain 3 tickets in total

Probability of drawing the red ticket from the box= (number of red ticket in the box / Total number of tickets in the box) = 1/3

We know that, probability of drawing the red ticket from the box is same as chance of drawing a red ticket from the box

Therefore, the chance of drawing the red ticket is 1/3

Answer: 1/3